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Every business needs a good accounting team at its core or at least one specialist who properly understands the field and the company’s specific requirements. There’s a lot that goes into the job of a typical accountant, and even though their specific duties may vary from one company to another, the most important aspects of the job are usually al...
17 September 2018 /inclusion Personal Finance
Ambrish Parmar Digital Leader, Strategist, at Thought leader and Start-up Advisor
Time to read: 5 minutes to gain a different perspective. We are the lucky ones … : : The school holidays are over…disappointment and relief are felt in equal measure. It’s time to reassess finances and establish the damage caused by constant trips to the local supermarket, day excursions to theme parks and, of course, the school uniform bulk buy. ...
11 September 2018 /inclusion Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
According to KPMG’s latest The Pulse of Fintech report, 2018 is set to be another record-breaking year for Fintech investment. After only two quarters, it’s already reached $57.9 billion, less than $5 billion shy of 2015’s highs of $62.5 billion. Europe and Asia are particularly hot Fintech areas at the moment. With $26 billion and $16.8 billion r...
10 September 2018 /inclusion Fintech
Almost all inventions in every industry have been designed to make our lives more comfortable or convenient in one way or another. But one sector which hasn’t always been known for its continuous innovation is the financial industry. In the past, the core financial institutions have controlled the rate of innovation, deciding how consumers accessed...
03 September 2018 /inclusion Trends in Financial Services
Equity rounds have been the main talk of the fintech industry in recent months, but that might be changing soon. A financial startup, Klarna, recently reported that they’ve been able to raise significant capital, although without any equity financing – instead, the company took that as a debt. A representative for Klarna stated that the organizati...
24 August 2018 /inclusion Fintech
As the presence of fintech in various industries keeps growing, its impact on some industries is getting harder to ignore. Financial services in particular have benefited a lot from the integration of various modern financial technologies in their work, and we’re likely only seeing the tip of the iceberg, with more coming up not too far on the hor...
17 August 2018 /inclusion Fintech
Daniel Fasnacht CEO&Founder at EcosystemPartners AG
After the financial crisis, Western banks where paralysed with lawsuits, fines and regulatory requirements. The lack of innovation paved the way for a new industry (fintech), focusing on data and clients that lost trust in large banks and their intransparent and complex financial products. Challenger banks from Asia are about to export their digit...
15 August 2018 /inclusion Fintech
Jonathan Westley Chief Data Officer, Experian UK & EMEA at Experian
It’s been an unusual summer. England’s footballers reached their first World Cup semi-final in 28 years, while the heatwave has caused meteorologists to make comparisons with weather 42 years ago. Now the Office for National Statistics has identified another rare event: UK households have become net borrowers for the first time in almost 30 years. ...
30 July 2018 /inclusion
Finding yourself in a lot of debt is never a fun ordeal, especially if you’ve let the problem go on for a while and don’t see a viable way out. The truth is, most of these situations can be addressed in one way or another, you just need to know what tools are available at your disposal and how to use them properly. Debt consolidation refers to th...
25 July 2018 /inclusion Financial Inclusion
Balazs Fejes President Europe and APAC at EPAM Systems
On our blog, we write about solving the complex challenges that digital businesses face, but what about the challenges that continue to emerge from the rapid digitization of our society? These sets of challenges are often interconnected in many ways, and payments is a great example of where business and societal challenges intersect. After all, ho...
18 July 2018 /inclusion Futuristic Banking
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